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One of my primary worries about the modern world is the erosion of dark skies. Stargazing has been a fundamental part of the human spirit since the dawn of humanity. But there is a clear future ahead of us where we are denied this part of our souls. I don't know what that means for all of us, but I suspect it isn't good. To promote stargazing as a foundational human activity, I am releasing a series of albums to serve as a sound track for stargazing. I call this series "Music For...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient, space music, berlin
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Sep 8, 2022
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Palancar
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One of my biggest concerns about the modern world is the growing scarcity of dark skies available to humanity. So many kids grow up without ever once seeing the Milky Way or appreciating first hand the scale of the cosmos spread out across the sky above. Everything is hidden behind a haze of orange light pollution that blankets our urban skies from every direction. How can we as a species understand our place in the great scheme of things if we never even look up? How can we maintain a...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient, space music, berlin
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Apr 21, 2022
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Apr 21, 2022
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Most scientists today believe in reductionism, a principle that says all phenomena in nature can ultimately be reduced to just two physical theories: general relativity and the standard model. Another way of saying this, perhaps more interestingly, is that all phenomena we see in the macro world around us are derived from uncountable (but finite) numbers of fundamental interactions that together add up to results of amazing complexity and intricacy -- results that seem impossible given how...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, dark ambient
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Jan 29, 2022
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My latest release is a collection of rhythmic ambient pieces called "Desert Power", directly inspired by Frank Herbert's "Dune". I have lost track of how many times I have read the "Dune" series of novels over the many decades I've been reading science fiction. Most recently, I had gone many years without cracking one of them open, but my interest was rekindled by the release of the movie "Dune" by Denis Villeneuve. While I can see how the uninitiated...
Topics: ambient, electronic, new age, cinematic, dark ambient
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Dec 6, 2021
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Dec 6, 2021
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This album is just a little audio journal that I kept during my recent trip through the valley. Those who have also walked that road might recognize a few sights and sounds, smells and sensations, and a special quality to the light. The music is pure ambience, mostly abstract, with an emphasis on shapes not tones. Best listening is at low volume in a dark room with a bitter brew. ---- As always, all Emergent World releases are available under the Creative Commons...
Topics: ambient, dark ambient
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Sep 13, 2021
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And now for something completely different ... This whole thing started one day when I asked myself: What would Gavin Harrison sound like if he could play only drum machines? Now, if you're not familiar with Gavin's drum work, you really owe it to yourself to check him out at gavharrison.com. He's one of today's preeminent prog drummers, who (like the god of prog Neil Peart) makes the instrument sing with a musical sense of artistry that is sometimes lost with other technical drummers. ...
Topics: electronic, berlin, space music
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Oct 16, 2019
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A live performance given on Mike Hunter's glorious radio program Music With Space on WPRJ Princeton on February 2, 2019. --- Special note: the download for this recording includes both MP3 and FLAC formats. Unlike MP3, which throws away some of the audio data in order to achieve high compression, FLAC is a lossless format that is identical in quality to the original audio signal. For more information about FLAC, please visit the FLAC home page at: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ As always, all...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient, berlin, space music, live music
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Oct 15, 2019
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Oct 15, 2019
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Palancar
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This is a collection of sixteen different live performances that I've given over the past several years for various audiences on RadioSpiral and occasionally also YouTube. --- Special note: the download for this recording includes both MP3 and FLAC formats. Unlike MP3, which throws away some of the audio data in order to achieve high compression, FLAC is a lossless format that is identical in quality to the original audio signal. For more information about FLAC, please visit the FLAC home page...
Topics: ambient, dark ambient, space music, atmospheric, live
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Jun 12, 2019
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The ancient Egyptians noted the marvelous passing of the sun god each day across the sky and so they came to associate the sun with the concept of rebirth and regeneration. Or, in more generic terms, that there is a great cycle that the sun follows in its path through the sky. A fully formed religion took up this concept, a fascinating and perhaps unique synthesis of cosmology, astronomy, and mythology. They called their sun god Ra and the scarab was one of his forms. And so this album is...
Topics: electronic, ambient, dark ambient, space music, atmospheric
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Dec 30, 2018
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I am a Wikipedia geek. Yes, I admit it. One of my favorite pastimes is to go to the Wikipedia home page, hit the random link, start reading a base article, and then see where I end up. Often times I pass through quite a bewildering sequence of topics, usually ending up in quite a different place than where I started. Which is, of course, half the fun. During one of these virtual journeys, I came across this interesting page, which describes the traditional colors of Japan, including which...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient, space music, atmospheric
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Sep 12, 2018
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Palancar
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This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2007 on Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a Creative Commons license. This album contains excerpts from various "Ambient Train Wrecks" that I performed on StillStream.com in 2005 and 2006. All recordings are exactly as the audience heard, warts and all. I hope you enjoy it. Darrell Burgan 2018
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient
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Sep 11, 2018
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dw091 - Palancar - Précis In the latest release from his Palancar project, electronic ambient artist Darrell Wade Burgan has gone a unique direction, releasing a deep study of short-play ambience entitled Précis, Eschewing the long form, Précis is meant to be experienced as a set of brief vignettes, each piece a still life image of the mood or concept in the artist's head at the time of composition. Darrell describes this approach as “ambient haiku”, an attempt to evoke a particular idea...
Topics: ambient, dark ambient
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Cluster Balm
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Cluster Balm - 1.0 This album, the debut release by Cluster Balm, was originally released commercially on Blue Water Records in 2004, and is now available on Emergent World for free enjoyment. Jason, Darrell and Scott all hope that you find this music as fulfilling to listen to as it was to make. From the original web site: "Ambient music isn't your typical musical listening experience, and Cluster Balm is not your typical ambient listening experience. Cluster Balm was formed by...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient
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Cluster Balm
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Cluster Balm - Instamatic This album was originally released commercially on Blue Water Records in 2005, and is now available on Emergent World for free enjoyment. Jason, Darrell and Scott all hope that you find this music as fulfilling to listen to as it was to make. Nearly two years after the release of their debut album 1.0, Cluster Balm unveiled their sophomore effort, entitled Instamatic. Reflecting the increasing seamlessness of the work of these three musicians, Instamatic delivers...
Topics: ambient, electronic, dark ambient, music
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Sep 9, 2018
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Palancar - Final Theory Over the past several years, I have been increasingly fascinated by the pulsing electronic music of the Berlin School. Iconic radio programs like Star's End educated me on this style of electronica and ever since I have been trying to create music in this vein. Somehow I always ended up starting with a sequence but ending up in a quite different place altogether. This is not at all a bad thing, in my view; but it does mean that I still have not been able to fully...
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Topics: electronic, berlin, electronica
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Oct 30, 2017
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In 17th century Japan there once lived a poet named Matsuo Basho, who authored some of the most evocative, transcendent, and occasionally humorous poetry ever written. Working primarily in the haiku form, his words resonate even today with their imagery, depth, and delicate touch. One of his more famous quotes was this: "A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed." With my latest album,...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, soundscape
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Jan 1, 2017
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One of the aspects of electronic music that I appreciate most is the freedom to experiment, to pursue whatever music seems right at the time. After all, it is about the love for the art, which to me really means that it is about having fun with what one creates. With this in mind, in 2014 I decided to attempt an album of downtempo electronica, with a liberal dash of Berlin School style sequences, one that openly embraced rhythm, melody, and percussion. And certainly, with the strong...
Topics: electronic, ambient, downtempo, symphonic
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Recently, Darrell Burgan began composing ambient music under the Palancar pseudonym again after a period of some quiet. Where his previous release, Counting Raindrops was a subdued study of reflection and emotion, his latest release Shani hearkens back to his fascination with the planets of our solar system. In his previous planetary releases, Darrell focused on Mars with Elysium Planitia , and on Earth's moon with Serenitatis . With Shani , Darrell pays a visit to one of the most mysterious...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, symphonic, new age, electronic, drone, symphonic, new age
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Copal River
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Sometime a few years ago, Scott Turner (of Not Your Average Hippy) and Darrell Burgan (of Palancar) decided to take a weekend off, travel to a lovely retreat by the water, and spend a few days immersing themselves as deeply as possible in some ambient music composition. While these two artists had worked on projects together before, these face to face sessions struck a chord deep within each of them. The music that came from these sessions seemed to them to be exactly what their ambient music...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone
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After several years away from live performance, Darrell Burgan of Palancar had a wild hair and decided to put together a live set, just for the fun of it. This recording is the unedited result of that live set. Performed live on StillStream.com on Rebekkah Hilgraves' excellent program At Water's Edge , you hear in this recording exactly what the audience heard that night, warts and all. Please visit Palancar on the net at www.palancar.net . Please visit At Water's Edge on the net at...
Topics: ambient, electronic, live
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This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2007 on Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a public domain license. Feel free to do whatever you want with this material, with my full blessing. This album contains excerpts from various "Ambient Train Wrecks" that I performed on StillStream.com in 2007. All recordings are exactly as the audience heard, warts...
Topics: ambient, electronic
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This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2008 on Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a public domain license. Feel free to do whatever you want with this material, with my full blessing. This album contains excerpts from various "Ambient Train Wrecks" that I performed on StillStream.com in 2007. All recordings are exactly as the audience heard, warts...
Topics: ambient, electronic, electronic
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This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2005 as a limited-run set of CDs available through Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a public domain license. Feel free to do whatever you want with this material, with my full blessing. This album represents a cross-section of internet radio concerts I performed during the second half of 2004 and early 2005. All...
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earman198 - Har and Altus - Shadow District What a great joy it is to release an album by two old friends, one a long-standing Earth Mantra artist, and the other with his first album on our humble netlabel. This is precisely the pleasure we have today, as we introduce "Shadow District", the brand new collaboration by ambient masters Har and Altus. An album by either one of these artists would be cause for celebration, but together the results simply astonish. A full seventy minutes of...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, dark ambient, space music
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earman197 - Incandescent Void - Bardo At long last, Kyle Pattrick, the ambient maestro behind Incandescent Void, returns to Earth Mantra with a supremely enigmatic dark ambient release called "Bardo". The title is taken from a Tibetan word that can be approximately translated as "in-between", a transitional state between modes of embodiment. In "Bardo", Kyle has interpreted this metaphysical concept as "... a passing awareness, in a sea of stars, amongst a...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, dark ambient, experimental
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earman196 - Another Neglected Hobby - Chaco Equinox Many times we have mentioned how much pleasure we take in welcoming new artists to the Earth Mantra family. Today is such a day, as we welcome Mark Cotton and his Another Neglected Hobby project, releasing his stunning brand new album "Chaco Equinox". Mark's inspiration for this recording came from watching a documentary about Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico, USA, which told the story of the buildings and roads built by a...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, space music, tribal
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earman195 - Dan Minoza and Symatic Star - Star Chamber As the heat descends on the northern hemisphere, we instinctively search for respite, for a place of shade and shelter. Fortunately for us, the new release by Dan Minoza and Symatic Star, entitled "Star Chamber" delivers a glacial, soothing ambient experience perfectly suited for listening during long afternoon siestas. We don't know if this represents the first collaborative release by these two accomplished artists, but we...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, space music
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earman194 - Jarguna - Waiting For A Call From The Unknown Folks, we have a real treat in store for you today. We proudly unveil the debut Earth Mantra release by Jarguna, a masterful and inquisitive collection of ambient pieces called "Waiting For A Call From The Unknown". For those of you who might be unfamiliar with the work of Jarguna, let us simply say that we think you will find much to love about his music. With more than an hour and half of some of the most mature and well...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, space music
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May 8, 2012
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earman193 - Gregg Plummer - Free Some ambient albums seem to be collections of lovely but disparate pieces, each a delightful experience but with no particular meaning for the album itself. Others possess a cohesive theme for the collection, but attach no significance to the order in which the pieces appear. Finally, some albums combine consistent subject matter with a strong chronology, presenting the listener with a story, an aural journey that offers the most value to the listener who can...
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earman192 - Meho - Pust Grad Time for another release on Earth Mantra, and time again to welcome a brand new artist to our roster, this time ambient alchemist Meho. Hailing from Bosnia/Herzegovina and Sweden, Meho concocts mysterious brews of foreboding ambient soundscapes that we find eerily beautiful and deeply moving. In his debut Earth Mantra release, called "Pust Grad" (which means "Deserted City" in English), Meho takes us on a journey through a post-apocalyptic world,...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, dark ambient, experimental
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earman191 - Stefan Paulus - Becoming-Dissolve Many times we have mentioned how privileged we at Earth Mantra feel to be able to meet artists with whom we are unfamiliar, and to bring their music to our audience. Today we have just such a privilege, as we present Stefan Paulus and his new release "Becoming-Dissolve". Folks, we have a mighty treat in store for fans of sounds of the darker and more experimental variety. Like some other artists on our roster, Stefan revels in extracting...
Topics: ambient, electronic, abstract, experimental, drone, dark ambient
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earman190 - Jack Hertz - Green Mist Time for another release on Earth Mantra, this time a beautiful collection of superb live performances by Jack Hertz, called "Green Mist". We at Earth Mantra have been listening to a lot of Jack Hertz recently, through his weekly live radio program on StillStream.com and Electro-Music.com called "Time Drone". In this program, Jack often plays an extended live set for his listeners, which can encompass musical styles as diverse as Berlin...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, space music
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earman189 - [mikra] - Muraena Linnaeus One of the great pleasures of running a netlabel is meeting new artists, and today is no exception. We are very happy to welcome Pavel Rassolko and his [mikra] project to our family of artists, with his brand new album "Muraena Linnaeus". Followers of Earth Mantra will know that we like to cover a broad swath of sonic territory in our releases. "Muraena Linnaeus" pushes that envelope somewhat, offering the listener a mysterious, perhaps...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, dark ambient, experimental
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earman188 - Frore - Axis Mundi Paul Casper of Frore returns to Earth Mantra with another epic tribal ambient odyssey called "Axis Mundi". Folks, we at Earth Mantra listen to a lot of ambient music, and Frore has come to be one of our favorite ambient artists ever. Consequently, we have come to expect great things from Paul when he submits a new release for consideration, and with this album he exceeded even our high expectations. A longplayer clocking in at over fifty one minutes,...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, world fusion, tribal
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earman187 - EugeneKha - Green Quest Our friend, Russian electronic maestro Evgenij V. Kharitonov, returns to Earth Mantra with another beautiful release under his EugeneKha pseudonym called "Green Quest". We have always been struck by the diversity of musical styles that Evgenij takes on, and this album is a textbook case in point. Where his previous Earth Mantra releases covered such territory as dark ambience, space music, and electronic soundscapes, with "Green Quest" he...
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earman186 - Sergio De Vega - The Edge Of Forever It is time for another Earth Mantra release. Likewise it is time to welcome a new artist to our family, this time ambient explorer Sergio De Vega and his brand new release "The Edge Of Forever". We have long been fans of Sergio's deep and introspective ambient guitar work, having listened to many of the pieces he has made available on the Internet Archive under the moniker Srg. So when we learned we had the opportunity to release a...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, space music
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earman185 - Christian Doil - Maschinen German ambient alchemist Christian Doil returns to Earth Mantra with another ingenious collection of creative and curiously soothing textural ambient pieces called "Maschinen". In his previous two Earth Mantra releases, "Wasser" and "Metall", Christian presented a distinctive artistic viewpoint, a series of studies of various concrete objects. With "Maschinen", he continues down his singular path through the world of...
Topics: ambient, electronic, abstract, experimental, drone, dark ambient
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earman184 - Joe McMahon - 3AM After a long time away, Joe McMahon returns to Earth Mantra with a brand new album entitled "3AM". Folks, we have a real treat in store for you today. Fans of Earth Mantra will remember Joe's magnificent 2009 Earth Mantra release "Ocean Music", a study in minimal ambience and the gray area between tonal and abstract music. Like "Ocean Music", "3AM" retains Joe's signature attention to detail and his minimal aesthetic. Unlike...
Topics: ambient, electronic, new age
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earman183 - Palancar - Diminishing Light Today we have another Palancar re-release by Darrell Burgan to offer our listeners, an album originally released commercially in 2006 called "Diminishing Light". This is a collection of diverse ambient pieces, sometimes reflective and thoughtful, other times gloomy and intense, but always moody and simmering with a barely-restrained energy. Unlike Darrell's more recent work in the digital realm, this album was made with a heavy emphasis on...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, dark ambient
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earman182 - Emerald Adrift - Shifting Labyrinths David Herpich of Emerald Adrift returns triumphantly to Earth Mantra with a new album entitled "Shifting Labyrinths", and we could not be more excited to present this exquisite and fascinating release to our audience. As one comes to expect from Emerald Adrift, the music recognizes no genre boundaries, effortlessly blending such diverse influences as dark ambience, experimentalism, chamber music, electronica, film music, and textural...
Topics: ambient, electronic, experimental, classical
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earman181 - Robert Carty - Photonic Movements There is no aspect of running a netlabel that is sweeter than when we get to release an album by one of our very favorite artists. Today we have that distinct pleasure, as we present the first release by Robert Carty on Earth Mantra, his exquisite new album "Photonic Movements". Robert Carty is justifiably beloved as one of the masters of pure space music, and as one of its most prolific artists as well. For nearly two decades now, he has...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, space music
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earman180 - Reese Burgan - Eighth Day Earth Mantra welcomes back Reese Burgan, who this time has for us a momentous album called "Eighth Day" that defies easy description. Unlike some of his previous releases that flirt with downtempo electronica and other rhythmic forms, this time Reese delivers a collection of pieces that leans away from beats and rhythms, focusing instead on pure sound construction and compositional sophistication. But calling this music merely "ambient"...
Topics: ambient, electronic, experimental, classical
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earman179 - Palancar - Elysium Planitia We have another Palancar release in store for you today, this time a re-release of a title originally from 2003. Called "Elysium Planitia", this is a collection of ambient space music that was described by one fan as "the quintessential Mars album". Originally released commercially on Blue Water Records, this album is now re-released and available freely under Creative Commons via Earth Mantra. The 'prequel' in many ways to Darrell...
Topics: ambient, electronic, new age, space music, drone
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earman178 - Michael Sandler - Ansatz We've oft mentioned how much we enjoy faring along with our friends, the Earth Mantra artists, as they travel down their unique path through the world of sound. Even greater is our joy when we can welcome back an artist who has been long away, to again enjoy the music of a friend we have not heard from in some time. Such is the pleasure we have today, as we release Michael Sandler's first album on Earth Mantra since 2007, a glorious new release called...
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Topics: ambient, electronic, space music, psychedelic
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earman177 - Susperia-Electrica - A World Beyond Our Own Earth Mantra listeners know that we are big fans of the work of Nick Fortune, aka Susperia-Electrica, having released two of his albums, both in 2010. Consequently, we are very honored to announce his triumphant return, as well as his first release of 2011 on our humble netlabel: a luxurious collection of dazzling space music called "A World Beyond Our Own". Space music is one of those genres that, when done right, can elevate...
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earman176 - Arcticology - Athena Earth Mantra is very happy to welcome back ambient maestro Dale Humphries and his Arcticology project, with his wondrous new release "Athena". Our listeners and artists alike will know that Earth Mantra has a strong preference for full-length albums, and that in particular we do not like to release EP-length titles. This is primarily because we think ambient music requires time to fully establish itself in the mind of the listener, and there just isn't...
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earman175 - Modulator ESP - Event Horizon What a great several weeks we have had here at Earth Mantra; so many new artists have released so many tremendous albums recently that it really knocks our socks off. With this release, we don't exactly introduce someone new, since Jez Creek has released music on Earth Mantra before as part of the Combs Creek Haller collaboration. But it is the first time he has released a solo album with us, and we feel very honored indeed to release the marvelous new...
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earman174 - Palancar - Crooked Little House Palancar returns to Earth Mantra with a brand new studio album, this one quite different from his previous effort "Serenitatis". Called "Crooked Little House", this is a collection of dark visceral ambience unlike anything else he has previously released. The music is thoroughly textural and abstract, embracing the world of dark ambience unapologetically. The artist prefers to keep the thematic interpretation personal, but will...
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Apr 13, 2011
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earman173 - M. Peck - Beneath Forever We at Earth Mantra are very excited to welcome M. Peck to our family of artists, and to announce his brand new release "Beneath Forever". And what a cool album this is. M. Peck is justifiably renowned for his completely distinctive fusion of ambience, electronica, and power drone, something we'll simply call 'progressive ambient' music. Indeed, this album IS something genuinely new, a hard-to-describe collection of sound sculptures that teases the...
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earman172 - Jake Jackson - Abstract Transmissions We at Earth Mantra find it remarkable how many great ambient musicians there are in the community, and we feel privileged whenever we have the opportunity to meet a new artist and release their work to the world. Such is our honor today, as we introduce Jake Jackson to our audience, with his jaw-dropping new album "Abstract Transmissions". Folks, we have a real treat in store for you here. From the moment we started listening to Jake's...
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earman171 - Gregg Plummer - Three Graces Once again we have the distinct pleasure of welcoming a new artist to the Earth Mantra family, this time Gregg Plummer, an artist we have long admired and whose music we have greatly enjoyed. With his new release "Three Graces", Gregg delivers to us a collection of three intelligent and captivating ambient pieces that we think our audience really needs to hear. It is difficult to characterize Gregg's music in words, for he is a genuine musical...
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earman170 - Lily Pond Orchestra - Suite For New England Lily Pond Orchestra returns to the shores of Earth Mantra, this time with a stunning three-disc collection of exhilarating ambient compositions called "Suite For New England". Douglas JP Lee, the man behind Lily Pond Orchestra, began working on this epic release in early 2010, though at the time he was only intending to develop three individual pieces. As he composed, however, he realized that these early works were actually...
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earman169 - Shane Morris - Equinox Ambient wizard Shane Morris returns triumphantly to Earth Mantra, with a brand new studio release called "Equinox". Folks, we have a serious treat in store for you with this one. Fans of Earth Mantra will know Shane from his transcendent live releases "Premonition" and "Magnetosphere", as well as his live collaboration with Dan Minoza entitled "The Ritual Space". This time Shane delivers a collection of composed pieces...
Topics: ambient, electronic, space music, world fusion, tribal
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earman168 - EugeneKha - Low Sky Our friend Evgenij Kharitonov returns to Earth Mantra with another resplendent collection of ambient electronic pieces called "Low Sky". One of the hallmarks of Kharitonov's music is his surprising diversity. Every time we think we have figured out what genre label to apply to his music, he produces a new release that confounds our previous definitions. Thus far, on Earth Mantra alone, Evgenij has covered territory as far separated as dark ambience,...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, space music
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earman167 - Burning Artists Sale - Bake Sale Next up on Earth Mantra is "Bake Sale", a sublime pair of ambient pieces by Burning Artists Sale, a collaborative project between Barbara Vesey and Kevin Haller. Two very different tracks constitute this enchanting release, one a live performance and the other a studio composition. Given their differences, let us examine each in detail. The first piece, called "The Opposite of Antithesis / Vermillion" was recorded live at the...
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earman166 - Petal - Up From Here Jon Wheeler of Petal returns to Earth Mantra with another collection of poignant and supremely creative ambient music called "Up From Here". Fans will remember Petal's previous Earth Mantra foray, called "The Last Season", something that prompted us to label Jon as "one of the most creative and ingenious ambient artists active today". With "Up From Here", Jon takes his music to an even higher level, retaining his...
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The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and...
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The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and...
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The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and...
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The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and...
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The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and...
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earman165 - The Omega Core - Massive Black We have oft mentioned how much we enjoy meeting new folks and bringing their music to our listening audience. Today, we have the pleasure of welcoming Matt Shepherd of The Omega Core to our family of artists, with his fascinating release "Massive Black". We find it difficult to categorize this captivating album. Certainly much of the music could be labeled dark ambient, replete with foreboding abstract sound sculpture and baleful waves of...
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earman164 - Aairria - Katharsis After a long time away, ambient prodigy Marcin Drabot returns to Earth Mantra with another collection of fathomless textural music, this time a trio of captivating pieces from his Aairria project called "Katharsis". We will confess from the outset that our admiration for Drabot's music extends very far and very deep. We consider him nothing less than one of the premier ambient artists active today, having created several pieces that we would call...
Topics: ambient, electronic, drone, abstract, dark ambient, experimental
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earman163 - Lucette Bourdin and Phillip Wilkerson - Coast to Coast The ambient music genre possesses many strengths, among them the willingness of so many artists to collaborate together, blending their oftentimes different styles and creating whole new directions and perspectives that had never existed before. One of the many pleasures of running a netlabel is being in a position to introduce artists to each other, to encourage a sense of community amongst them, and of course, to release the...
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earman162 - :sinclair: - 0306 Ronny Jung triumphantly returns to Earth Mantra, this time with a truly enigmatic new release from his :sinclair: project called "0306". Ronny's 2010 :retreat: release "Lordes" blew us away with its minimal approach to ambience, and with its understated and tasteful sound design. Though the project name has changed, these qualities remain firmly in place in "0306". Indeed, this album contains an immensity of scope and thought that we...
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earman161 - Rigel Orionis - Variations on Sonic Integrity With our second release of 2011, Earth Mantra has a very special treat for our listeners - and one with a particular significance for everyone who loves electronic music. It is our very great privilege to be able to bring our listeners a new album by none other than Jim Brenholts, aka Rigel Orionis, entitled "Variations on Sonic Integrity". For those who didn't know Jim, allow us to share a little of his story. He never would...
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Somnarium
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earman160 - Somnarium - Frost We at Earth Mantra have long been fans of the enigmatic ambient music of Michael Meara. So you can imagine our delight at the prospect of releasing something by this superb artist, a prospect now a reality with our latest release: an album by Michael's Somnarium project called "Frost". And what a lovely album we have in store for our listeners, a collection of gorgeous ambient pieces falling somewhere in between the realms of light ambience and ambient...
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Jack Hertz
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earman159 - Jack Hertz - Streaming Landscape Earth Mantra enthusiastically announces a brand new album by an artist who has not previously released through our humble netlabel, this time a sleek live ambient performance by Jack Hertz called "Streaming Landscape". Any list of the coolest spots on the net for music fans would have to include electro-music.com, a community of artists and enthusiasts dedicated to the synthesizer and the vast world of sounds that such instruments yield....
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earman158 - Christian Doil - Wasser Ambient architect Christian Doil returns to Earth Mantra, this time with a double album of deeply expressive abstraction called "Wasser". This starkly beautiful collection transports the listener to a universe of moisture, a detailed study of the effect of aqua upon the world, and not so coincidentally, upon our ears. Christian has demonstrated repeatedly his exceptional talent for finding the music inside otherwise unremarkable everyday sounds. His...
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earman157 - Silvercord - Cronosleeps Over the past few years, Earth Mantra has had the honor of re-releasing two classic albums by Geoff Nostrant of Silvercord. Today, we are privileged to bring our listeners a brand spanking new Silvercord album, with all new pieces never before heard and never before made available anywhere. And what a breathtaking treat we have in store. Fans of Earth Mantra will know that we hold the music of Silvercord in very high esteem indeed, having praised it as some...
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Darren Harper
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earman156 - Darren Harper - Whispers As winter descends at last upon the northern hemisphere, we at Earth Mantra don our soft flannel pajamas, curl up in a big comfortable blanket, fill our cup with piping hot tea, and ease ourselves back in our listening chair for another season of delightful ambience. Our favorite time of year is the cold months, when the winds outside blow fierce from the arctic north, but inside we relax snug and warm, the perfect setting for ambient music. And amid this...
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Shane Morris and Dan Minoza
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earman155 - Shane Morris and Dan Minoza - The Ritual Space In July of 2010, we were privileged to be part of an intimate electronic music gathering held in Kansas City in the USA. Called the "2010 Kansas City Regional Electro-Music Festival", this event attracted ambient and electronic artists from all around the United States, who met for a few brief days to share music and art, collaboration and camaraderie. Amongst the live performances, demos, and lectures put on by the various...
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earman154 - Phillip Wilkerson - The Way Home Among the profound rewards of running a netlabel is the opportunity to journey alongside an artist, to participate obliquely in the evolution and honing of their craft, and to chronicle the narrative of their creative pilgrimage through time. As part of this process, we come to know the human beings behind the recordings, forming professional and sometimes personal relationships that endure and enrich. Phillip Wilkerson is one of those artists we...
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earman153 - Janne Hanhisuanto - Water Stories We live in a wonderful time. Sometimes the bad things that happen in this world and the pain and suffering of so many overshadow the good things that we do have. One of those good things is the music that we can now so freely share and enjoy, music of exceptional quality and enduring artistic value. Never before have so many been able to create and never before has an artist's work been so widely distributed, even to an audience dispersed around the...
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earman152 - Susperia-Electrica - Intrinsic Nick Fortune of Susperia-Electrica returns triumphantly to our humble netlabel with his latest creation "Intrinsic". And what a splendid album we have in store for our listeners here. In the short while we have known Nick, he has impressed us mightily with his scope of vision, his superb production skills, and his trademark attention to detail. With "Intrinsic", he elevates his craft even further, delivering an ornate and sleek...
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Shane Morris
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earman151 - Shane Morris - Premonition We have often mentioned how much we enjoy meeting new artists, one of the true joys of running a netlabel. But we enjoy just as much welcoming back artists who have already released with us, and love presenting new works by these folks to our audience. Such is our pleasure today, as we introduce the latest release by ambient multi-instrumentalist Shane Morris, entitled "Premonition". Like Shane's previous Earth Mantra title...
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Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan
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earman150 - Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan - Prasantih Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan return to Earth Mantra with their second collaborative release, an album of soothing ambient electronica entitled "Prasantih". Sometime in winter 2009-2010, Lucette and Darrell began working together on some cross-composed music, to see what sort of results might emerge from such a collaboration. Living thousands of miles apart, face to face recording was impossible. So instead they embarked...
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Medicine Man
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earman149 - Medicine Man - The Ether Three years have passed since the last time Robbyn Trappen released a Medicine Man album on Earth Mantra. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, Robbyn has not released anything at all during this time, through any label or venue. But the wait certainly has been worth it, for today we proudly unveil "The Ether", Medicine Man's latest album -- and possibly his magnum opus. Listening to the music on this release, one clearly understands the source of...
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earman148 - Deep Chill Network - Dream Companion We are very happy to welcome Deep Chill Network to our collective, with their debut Earth Mantra release entitled "Dream Companion". Over the years Deep Chill Network has created several sets of CDs, each with slightly different themes, among them the "Cyber Sleep" series, the "Dreams" series, and the "Frozen Tundra" series. Each of the titles in these collections delivers fairly minimal drones, but...
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earman147 - Guenter Schlienz - The Sardinian Tapes Earth Mantra celebrates the addition of another new artist to our roster of contributors, this time German analog synthesist Guenter Schlienz and his delectable new album "The Sardinian Tapes". And what an engaging collection of music this album contains. Distantly evoking the melodic analog synth grooves of Saul Stokes, though with a much slower, more mellow aesthetic, we think "The Sardinian Tapes" will put a smile on your...
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earman146 - Fosel - Problem of Universals (C. Reider Remixes) Experimental ambient alchemist Kurt Nimmo returns to Earth Mantra with an invigorating new Fosel release entitled "Problem of Universals (C. Reider Remixes)". Unlike Fosel's previous Earth Mantra release "Couriers of the Air", this new album presents a collection of remixes of original pieces composed by C. Reider, off of his 2009 release "Electret Quintet", itself a study of analog drum machines and...
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earman145 - Lily Pond Orchestra - Beautiful Day Ambient composer extraordinaire Lily Pond Orchestra returns to Earth Mantra with a lush and placid two-disc collection of contemplative pieces called "Beautiful Day". According to Douglas JP Lee, the artist behind Lily Pond Orchestra, this collection of sounds has only two purposes: to brighten the day and relax the mind. Though only a subset of a much larger work that Douglas has been crafting for several years now, "Beautiful...
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earman144 - Mystified - EarthWaves Thomas Park of Mystified returns to Earth Mantra, this time with a short-but-sweet collection of beautiful abstract drones called "EarthWaves". We have long been fans of Thomas's work, constantly amazed by both the amount of material that he produces, the consistent quality of that material, as well as the unending stream of new ideas that come out of his studio. With "EarthWaves", Thomas does not disappoint, delivering a new and very...
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earman143 - Lucette Bourdin - Horse Heaven Lucette Bourdin is clearly in a zone. How a solo artist can so prolifically create album after album of pure beauty, without ever taking her eye off the ball, is quite beyond our capacity to explain or understand. But create copiously she does, her standard of excellence never wavering, her music ever enchanting the listener. And the latest in her sequence of ambient masterpieces is this delightfully mysterious album called "Horse Heaven"....
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earman142 - Aristidis K. - #11038 We are very proud to welcome yet another new member to our circle of artists, this time Greek guitar wizard Aristidis K. and his enigmatic debut release "#11038". And enigmatic is the right word to use. This album is a compilation of deep thoughts and reflections of widely varying emotions aimed at taking the listener on a journey with "the guidance of sound as a sextant, enjoying the cool breeze while staring at the sunset". Indeed,...
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earman141 - Specta Ciera - Accumulation Section Earth Mantra is very proud to welcome another new artist to our roster of contributors, this time Devin Underwood and his enigmatic experimental ambient music project Specta Ciera. Devin has always been deeply interested in the creative uses of sound design, and with his debut Earth Mantra release "Accumulation Section", he does not disappoint. This album is a fascinating collection of true sound sculptures, drifting somewhere in a realm...
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earman140 - Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan - Samhata It is time for yet another Earth Mantra release, this time "Samhata", a collaboration between renowned ambient master Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan, better known for his releases as Palancar. Sometime in winter 2009-2010, Lucette and Darrell started tossing around the idea of working together, to see what sort of music might emerge from such a collaboration. Living thousands of miles apart, face to face recording was...
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earman139 - Frequent Sync - Coalesce We've noted many times how much we enjoy meeting new artists, one of the great benefits of running a netlabel. Just as cool, however, is to hear new collaborations from folks who are already established as Earth Mantra contributors, particularly when those folks are some of our favorite artists anywhere. Such is our pleasure today, as we unveil the new release "Coalesce" by Frequent Sync, the ambient partnership of Darren Harper and Jacob Newman....
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earman138 - Killer Haven - City Skies 2010 Practices For those not familiar, City Skies (cityskies.com) is a monthly electronic music concert series that also has a huge annual festival that draws some of the best ambient and electronic artists from across the USA and around the world to Decatur, Georgia for several days of truly sublime live performances. If you live anywhere in the southeastern United States, we strongly suggest you check out this event and attend live if you possibly can, as...
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earman137 - Marc Atmost - Versatile As a famous movie once said: "... and now for something completely different". Long time listeners will know that Earth Mantra works hard to keep a fairly tight focus on the styles of music that we release. In general, we restrict ourselves to that ever-nebulous label 'ambient music', which of course itself comprises dozens of subgenres and the innumerable fusions that they spawn. But unlike many netlabels, perhaps, we do not include downtempo...
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earman136 - Nettless - Phobos and Deimos Finnish artist Toni Viholainen and his Nettless project triumphantly return to Earth Mantra, with the staggering two-disc collection of epic space music entitled "Phobos and Deimos". To anyone who has heard his debut album "From Beyond", also available here on Earth Mantra, it is obvious that Toni has a special talent for ambient music. So it was with great anticipation that we awaited his second release -- and the wait has been more...
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earman135 - ItsAllOneSong - MudDogs We are excited to welcome Michael Moore of ItsAllOneSong to Earth Mantra, with his strikingly creative debut album entitled "MudDogs". We have a treat in store for our listeners with this release, which is a truly inventive collection of pieces spanning multiple areas of ambience. Indeed, the music of ItsAllOneSong is difficult to pigeonhole into a specific genre context, because Michael always seems to be investigating new forms and approaches. As...
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earman134 - Dreamhub - Moments in Space We've often written about how cool it is to meet new artists and discover new music, probably the best aspect of running a netlabel. And yet again we have the privilege of welcoming a new artist to Earth Mantra, this time Danish electronic maestro Kim Pedersen and his exceptional ambient music project Dreamhub. With his debut Earth Mantra album, entitled "Moments in Space", Kim has produced a collection of utterly divine ambient space music. In...
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earman133 - Lucette Bourdin - Rumors From Cypress Town Ambient virtuoso Lucette Bourdin returns to Earth Mantra with yet another iconic collection of intelligent and evocative ambient pieces called "Rumors From Cypress Town". Unlike her most recent masterpieces, the "Silver Moon" / "Golden Sun" / "Radiant Stars" trilogy, her latest release is highly cinematic, what Lucette describes as "A Motion Picture In My Head Soundtrack". The pieces are...
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earman132 - Susperia-Electrica - Turmoil Earth Mantra welcomes Nick Fortune to our humble netlabel, with his superb electronic ambient release "Turmoil", under his project name Susperia-Electrica. We at Earth Mantra are fairly well tuned in to the ambient community and are aware of thousands of the artists in the genre, quite a large cross section of the entire community. But surprisingly to us, somehow Susperia-Electrica flew beneath our radar, despite the quality of the music and...
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earman131 - Janne Hanhisuanto - Icescapes Earth Mantra is very happy to welcome Finnish ambient composer Janne Hanhisuanto to our humble netlabel, with his beautiful new album "Icescapes". We have a real treat in store for you with this release, which is a collection of smooth and utterly gorgeous ambient tracks. Ranging from tranquil synthesized tone poems, to gentle acoustic piano pieces, to pulsing electronic compositions, there is truly something for everyone in this exquisite...
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earman130 - :retreat: - Lordes Earth Mantra is very pleased to welcome Ronny Jung of :retreat: to our netlabel, with his wonderfully deep minimal ambient album "Lordes". We've mentioned many times how much we enjoy meeting new artists and hearing new music, one of the true benefits of running a netlabel. Likewise, one of the joys of releasing ambient music is that every album is so distinct, with such a unique sound, feel, and musical approach. With "Lordes", we are reminded...
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earman129 - Lily Pond Orchestra - Tabernacle Earth Mantra welcomes symphonic ambient composer Douglas JP Lee to our list of artists, with his sublime two-disc ambient epic entitled "Tabernacle", a collection of three longform ambient pieces of great beauty and inspiration. We have listened to work from Lily Pond Orchestra in the past and enjoyed his refreshingly musical approach to ambient composition. But we were not prepared for what we heard the first time we listened to...
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earman128 - Darren Harper - Descend Some artists are just naturally in a zone, and clearly Darren Harper is one of them. His latest release, a collection of textural ambient sound sculptures called "Descend", is a perfect case in point. Darren has long impressed us with his tremendous skills in the worlds of sound design and abstract compositional structure, something you might have noticed by our very complimentary writeups on his other Earth Mantra releases. With...
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